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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






2. A character struggles against some outside force.






3. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






4. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






5. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






6. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






7. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






8. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






9. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






10. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






11. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






12. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






13. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






14. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






15. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






16. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






17. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






18. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






19. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






20. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






21. The selection of words in a literary work.






22. The dictionary meaning of a word.






23. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






24. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






25. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






26. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






27. What a story or play is about.






28. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






29. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






30. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






31. The organizational form of a literary work.






32. Broken down acts.






33. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






34. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






35. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






36. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






37. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






38. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






39. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






40. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






41. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






42. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






43. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






44. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






45. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






46. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






47. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






48. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






49. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






50. A poem that tells a story.






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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